Testing Lync A/V scenarios in a Virtual Machine with a Virtual/Emulated Webcam and Soundcard
VM’s are great for building labs and testing different scenarios. On of the challenges with Lync/UC is you need Audio and Video to do any serious testing.
You have a couple of options here
Use some old Physical hosts
Use VMware Workstation ...
Affordable Quiet 32GB RAM Home Lab/Whitebox Hyper-V server – Build List
Inspired/led astray by Jeff Guillet who I got to meet at the recent MVP Summit. I’ve recently bought a new 32GB RAM home lab server for home for £610/$970. Jeff has a great post on his build here, which provided a nice starting point for ...
Demo of Xstran client side Lync Contact Migrator
I’ve been meaning to get this one up for a while. Xstran have developed a client side contact importer/exporter for Lync. It relies on the Lync client rather than any server side access, so works fine with Office 365 as well as on-prem. There ...
Deploying a Kemp Virtual Load Balancer in Hyper-V and VMware
On of the requirements for an Enterprise Lync deployment (with multiple Front End Servers that work in a pool so you can withstand a server outage) is a “Hardware” Load Balancer. The in the recommended Lync 2010 deployment model, the hardware ...
Deploying a Kemp Virtual Load Balancer in VMware ESXi
Following on from this post, which contains more of an intro into Virtual Load Balancers and Lync, here is how to deploy a Kemp Virtual LoadMaster in VMware ESXi.
Firstly you will need to download the relevant files from Kemp. Kindly they offer ...
A look inside the net UX1000 Gateway/Survivable Branch Appliance – Photos of the hardware
My blog post giving an early look at the net UX1000 got a lot of interest, so I thought people might be interested in some more on the net 1000. The unit is now GA, and I had a chance to play with another unit today. This post is a brief look ...
Lync for Mac 2011 – Managed Preferences
Looking to set configuration preferences in Lync for mac? The office for mac site has a good overview of the settings here
From their site:
Certain features and behaviors that are available to Lync Server 2010 clients are determined by preference ...
